Pickering Swim Club hosts Lisa Flood Christmas Classic

A number of Pickering swimmers used The Lisa Flood meet as a springboard to the next level of competitive swimming. Jaime Baylon (100 Butterfly), Giselle Gursoy (200 Freestyle) and Kayla Sanchez (50 Freestyle) achieved Age Group time standards. Numerous other Pickering athletes earned Festival time standards. Meeting these requirements has earned them qualifying trips to the Age Group and Festival Meets in late February.

Numerous new meet records were set at the Lisa Flood Christmas Classic. Leading the way for Pickering was Kayla Sanchez (11 years) with six new meet records in 50 Freestyle (28.96s), 100 Freestyle (1:03.82s), 200 Back (2:39.18s), 100 Butterfly (1:16.89s), 100 Back (1:15.96s) and 200 Freestyle (2:18.27s). Giselle Gursoy (12 years) set two new meet records in the 400 Freestyle (4:47.18s) and the 200 Freestyle (2:16.07s). As well, Janelle Gursoy (11 years) also broke the record in the 50 Freestyle with a time of 30.10s.

Pickering swimmers had a tremendous showing in personal achievement, earning 587 new personal bests and taking 4680.89 seconds off of their collective times. Leading the way was Sydney Dosen, who shaved 145.27 seconds from her events.

In total, Pickering Swim Club earned 57 first, 49 second and 39 third place finishes.